Occupation Writer, journalist Name Amy Wilentz Language English Role Journalist | Nationality American Awards Whiting Awards Spouse Nicholas Goldberg | |
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Notable works Farewell, Fred Voodoo: A Letter From Haiti, I Feel Earthquakes More Often Than They Happen: Coming to California in the Age of Schwarzenegger Relatives David T. Wilentz (grandfather) Education Harvard University, Harvard College Books Farewell - Fred Voodoo, I Feel Earthquakes More Ofte, Martyrs' Crossing: A Novel, The Rainy Season: Haiti Sinc, Rainy Season: Haiti‑The | ||
Amy wilentz 2015 national book festival
Amy Wilentz is an American journalist and writer. She is a Professor of English at the University of California, Irvine, where she teaches in the Literary Journalism program. Wilentz was Jerusalem correspondent for The New Yorker, and is a contributing editor at The Nation.
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- Amy wilentz 2015 national book festival
- Author amy wilentz
- Early life and education
- Career
- Personal life
- Awards
- Books
- Anthologies
- References
Author amy wilentz
Early life and education
Wilentz was raised in Perth Amboy, New Jersey and New York City, U.S. She is the daughter of Robert N. Wilentz and Jacqueline Malino Wilentz. Her father was Chief Justice of the New Jersey Supreme Court from 1979 to 1996; her mother was a painter. She is the granddaughter of David T. Wilentz who was the Attorney General of New Jersey from 1934 to 1944.
She attended Harvard for undergraduate study in 1976, and spent a year after graduation on a Harvard/Radcliffe fellowship at the Ecole Normale Supérieure in Paris, France.
Career
Wilentz's first jobs in journalism were for The Nation, Newsday, and Time. She also worked for Ben Sonnenberg's literary periodical Grand Street, in its first years. She has followed events in Haiti for many years, from the fall of Jean-Claude Duvalier in 1986 through to the 2010 earthquake and the death of Jean-Claude Duvalier in 2014.
Her works have appeared in The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, Time, The New Republic, Mother Jones, Harper's, Vogue, Condé Nast Traveler, Travel & Leisure, San Francisco Chronicle, More, The Village Voice, The London Review of Books, and The Huffington Post.
Personal life
Wilentz is married to Nicholas Goldberg, opinion editor of The Los Angeles Times.
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